When I was a kid growing up in the 1960s and 1970 it was in the shadow of The Bomb and we all expected to be dead within a few years. That affects your thinking

When I was a kid growing up in the 1960s and 1970 it was in the shadow of The Bomb and we all expected to be dead within a few years. That affects your thinking. Our parents' and grandparents' generations were the people that wrecked the world with their European/Asian/Pacific wars and their plastics and their nucleotides and their freeways and their pesticides and their phosphates and acid rain and their racism and sexism and chauvinism. Rounding up their own children to send them to almost certain death in a foreign land to score brownie points at the country club. Still, we had hope for the future: we could put white men on the moon, we could eradicate many of the more common transmissible causes of death, we could feed the world at least in theory. Then came the Boomers who would change everything with their peace, love, and free thinking. That was reflected in the (non-commercial) music and writing of the time. Then they discovered money and how it could benefit them personally. Now I listen to the music and every other song seems to be about the medication they've been given is not enough, or how angry they are about what they've been given. The books seems to all be dystopian. The zeitgeist has gone from "Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may die" to "Starve yourself we're going to die." Hey folks, the future is what you make it. Don't expect anything to handed to you.